My calves hurt

Last night wasn’t about training but more of trial runs to find out who’ll do the 100m dash, the 200m, the full 400m, the 2x 400m and the relays.  

I am doing the 200m sprint race on Sunday, apart from being the first runner in two relay races.  Best luck to me.

Now don’t dare think I was assigned that because I did well last night.  Truth is, it’s simply because there are no other girls in the team so we were all given our dues.

After the sprint trials last night, my calves hurt.  Now I know why they say that sprinters are more injury-prone than distance runners.  The muscles in the legs would get the shock of their lives everytime you sprint!  Ha ha ha!  

And there was an added challenge to last night’s sprint trials.  We had to do it on an unlit grassy ballground of UST.  The surface was uneven but you only feel it because it’s dark you never really see what you’re stepping on.  It was kind of okay though to me because, at the very least, I am sure to land on a soft ground if ever I fall while pushing it my best. 

True enough, I went close to stumbling down while running full speed with the uneven surface and the lack of proper lighting.  Sprint racing brings up all the adrenaline rush in you and you begin not to care about anything except to cross the finish line first.  But last night I sort of shivered at the thought of the I-almost-fell-while-sprinting experience.  I was pushing it hard so I know that if I had really fallen to the ground, it’s going to be a “hard fall” too.  Yay!  I’m no ready for that.  That’s MPG to the nth level.

I don’t like the idea of being injured.  I think I want to run safe. 

So after the sprint races this Sunday, that’s supposed to come after a 10K race this Saturday (now my mother starts to wonder what it is I want prove to the world, hahaha!),  I shall go back to focusing on my distance running career.  I may be slow in finishing my 10K but I finish it still standing tall on my two strong feet and so injury-free. 

Not like this, when we only did a few sprint trials last night and still my calves hurt as of this writing.

What’s on my plate tonight

Training with the track and field team for Singolympics at UST…

I don’t know what I’m getting myself into.  They just told me they need people to play/ race and a friend volunteered me into it as he knew I’ve been into distance running lately -  but distance here defined as 10K the farthest, haha!  And another team wants to get me play for them in badminton.

Do these people have an idea I used to be sickly and weakling as a child?